August 16, 2019
Argentina
4608 x 3072 px
August 16, 2019
Argentina
4608 x 3072 px
A few months after the start of the Argentine-German Geodesy Observatory (AGGO), its radio telescope was selected to measure the exact position of the Earth. At the beginning of this year, a cooperation agreement was signed between CONICET and the Ministry of Defense of the Nation that would allow AGGO, which operates in the Pereyra Iraola Park in the city of La Plata, to enter a full operational phase thanks to the incorporation of technical personnel of the Armed Forces dedicated to operate two important astronomical observation instruments. A radio telescope that serves to observe quasars, astronomical objects so infinitely far away that is why they are considered still and serve to study the positioning of the Earth, and a laser telescope that takes images of artificial satellites. The AGGO emerged in 2015 as a joint initiative between CONICET and the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG).
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